by Ian Addison | Jan 23, 2012 | blogposts, General Thoughts
As you may have noticed, lots of schools have started getting children involved in the training of staff and in the day-to-day workings of ICT throughout the school. We have a group of children called Digital Leaders and I know many other schools do too. We have...
by Ian Addison | Jan 19, 2012 | blogposts, General Thoughts
One thing that I found out at BETT is that Brainpop is now available as a service through our Google Apps login. This means that if you have both Google Apps and Brainpop, you can link the two to make it easier for children to access the resources. Fabulous! So how do...
by Ian Addison | Dec 23, 2011 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
Something made me smile today and I thought I would share it with you. Brainpop contacted me to tell me that one of my ex-pupils had been in touch and wanted to thank them for their software and to ask if they gave out badges. Now as you may know, BrainPop are well...
by Ian Addison | Mar 28, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Today we had a teacher training day and the morning was given up to ICT. My plan was to show staff our ICT vision, how to use Google Apps and then give them time to play. My worry is that teachers never get play time and that they are expected to use new equipment,...
by Ian Addison | Jul 23, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
So, the holidays are here, time for us teachers to sit around on our backsides for 6 weeks. Fantastic. Or maybe not, do you know any teachers that relax for the whole 6 weeks? Me neither! This holiday will be a strange one and busy one. I’m moving back into...
